Security and fire alarm systems

This textbook introduces the topics and theories of process control step-by-step in increasing complexity, making the learning of detailed techniques and algorithms easier.

This book reports on the latest research and developments in the field of human factors in cybersecurity.

The pilot study on Food Chain Security was launched in 2003 by NATO Public Diplomacy Division Science for Peace and Security Section (SPS) under the leadership of Turkey.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Maximizing reader insights into the use of thermography, specifically pulsed and pulse phase thermography (PT and PPT), for the identification of kissing defects in adhesive bonds, this thesis focuses on the application of PT and PPT for the identification of a range of defect types in a variety of materials to establish the effect of material properties on identification of defects.

Despite the growing interest in security amongst governments, organizations and the general public, the provision of much security is substandard.

This book describes the fast reactor (FR), a type of new reactor for nuclear plants, currently under research and development.

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This volume investigates the interdisciplinary and cross-cutting challenges in the risk analysis of natural hazards.

This book presents the latest developments in biometrics technologies and reports on new approaches, methods, findings, and technologies developed or being developed by the research community and the industry.

This book presents the proceedings of the 14th International Probabilistic Workshop that was held in Ghent, Belgium in December 2016.

This book presents Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Networks (ICISN 2022), held at Hanoi in Vietnam.

This book comprises the proceedings of the Conference and Exhibition on Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE 2022).

This book provides a detailed introduction to the mechanism of rockburst in extremely thick coal seam mining and explores the mechanical mechanism on why the critical depth of rockburst in extremely thick coal seam mining is significantly smaller than that in thin to thick coal seams, it also proposes targeted monitoring, warning, and treatment technologies.

This book is the 2nd volume of proceedings of the 1st Smart Nuclear Power Technology Forum and the 8th China Nuclear Power Plant Digital Technology and Application Seminar held in Shenzhen, China in June 2024.

This book presents the use of tweakable block ciphers for lightweight authenticated encryption, especially applications targeted toward hardware acceleration where such efficient schemes have demonstrated competitive performance and strong provable security with large margins.

This book presents a fresh and original contribution to the debate on the policies and technologies needed to achieve a Greener Defence.

This book provides a comprehensive and practically minded introduction into serious games for law enforcement agencies.

Now in its second edition, this book introduces an approach to active system control.

Bayesian Reliability presents modern methods and techniques for analyzing reliability data from a Bayesian perspective.

This book highlights the advances and trends in the safety analysis of sodium-cooled fast reactors, especially from the perspective of particle bed-related phenomena during core disruptive accidents.

This book presents a systemic view of nanophenomena in terms of disordered condensed media with characteristics arising at various hierarchical levels from nanoagents/nanoparticles through multiple technological interfaces to the creation of micro- or mesostructures with essential nanodimensional effects.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the Sixth International Symposium on Software Reliability, Industrial Safety, Cyber Security and Physical Protection of Nuclear Power Plant, held in October 2021 in Zhuji, Zhejiang, China.

This book provides a single-source reference to one of the more challenging reliability issues plaguing modern semiconductor technologies, negative bias temperature instability.

This book presents Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Networks, Hanoi, Vietnam, a collection of peer-reviewed articles accepted by ICISN 2024.

This book discusses the intelligent optimization and control of complex metallurgical processes, including intelligent optimization and control of raw-material proportioning processes, coking process, and reheating furnaces; intelligent control of thermal state parameters in sintering processes; and intelligent decoupling control of gas collection and mixing-and-pressurization processes.

The large interest granted to this book made a 4th edition necessary.

To be able to compete successfully both at national and international levels, production systems and equipment must perform at levels not even thinkable a decade ago.

This book provides a detailed introduction to the mechanism of rockburst in extremely thick coal seam mining and explores the mechanical mechanism on why the critical depth of rockburst in extremely thick coal seam mining is significantly smaller than that in thin to thick coal seams, it also proposes targeted monitoring, warning, and treatment technologies.

Advanced communications and information technologies provide the basis for operational risk management.

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The Cold War saw scientists in East and West racing to create amazing new technologies, the like of which the world had never seen.

This book covers supply chain and logistics, production and manufacturing systems as well as human factors.

The fundamental motivation of this book is to contribute to the future advancement of Asset Management in the context of industrial plants and infrastructures.

This book presents the latest trends in attacks and protection methods of Critical Infrastructures.

This book provides the foundational aspects of malware attack vectors and appropriate defense mechanisms against malware.

This book provides an opportunity for researchers, scientists, government officials, strategist and operators and maintainers of large, complex and advanced systems and infrastructure to update their knowledge with the state of best practice in the challenging domains whilst networking with the leading representatives, researchers and solution providers.

This thesis develops a systematic, data-based dynamic modeling framework for industrial processes in keeping with the slowness principle.

The food industry is in the process of adapting itself more strongly than previously to the demands and needs for quality products.

This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art uncertainty quantification (UQ) methodologies and applications, and covers a wide range of current research, future challenges and applications in various domains, such as aerospace and mechanical applications, structure health and seismic hazard, electromagnetic energy (its impact on systems and humans) and global environmental state change.

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This volume presents selected papers from the International Conference on Reliability, Safety, and Hazard.

This book provides insights into important new developments in the area of statistical quality control and critically discusses methods used in on-line and off-line statistical quality control.

Over the past decade, the international political system has come to be characterized as a Great Power Competition in which multiple would-be hegemons compete for power and influence.

This book focuses on how real-time task schedules for reconfigurable hardware-based embedded platforms may be affected due to the vulnerability of hardware and proposes self-aware security strategies to counteract the various threats.

In the last few decades the accumulation of large amounts of in- formation in numerous applications.

Serving to unify the existing literature on extended warranties, maintenance service contracts and lease contracts, this book also presents a unique perspective on the topic focussed on cost analysis and decision-making from the perspectives of the parties involved.

Nuclear Safeguards, Security and Nonproliferation: Achieving Security with Technology and Policy, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference covering the cutting-edge technologies used to trace, track and safeguard nuclear material.